Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

Focusing on Virginia Woolf's literary influence, this analysis explores her engagement with the works of nineteenth-century women writers through her journalism. It examines her responses to authors like Jane Austen and George Eliot, revealing how Victorian narratives shaped her representations of female professionalism. The study contextualizes Woolf's feminist themes, particularly in A Room of One's Own, as part of a transitional literary biography that bridges Victorian and Modernist perspectives. Anne Reus, an Independent Scholar, brings expertise in women's writing and life writing.